Usage & Classification of Clauses

** Clauses are mainly two types.

    They are—
A. Principal clause or main clause or independent clause

          and this type of clause can make a complete sense

e.g.

I know a man. It makes a complete sense.

The man is an architect. It makes a complete sense.

B. Subordinate clause or, dependent clause  
 and this type of clause can’t make a complete sense but make an incomplete sense and become a part of complex sentences.

e.g.

  I know the man ‘who can speak English and French’.

আমি লোকটিকে চিনি যে ইংরেজি এবং ফরাসি বলতে পারে।
    * ‘who can speak English and French’ is subordinate clause.
    But,  ‘I know the man’ is  main clause/ principal clause.

The man who lives in the next door is an architect;

যে লোকটি পাশের ঘরে বাস করে সে একজন স্থাপত্যকৌশলি।      

* ‘who lives in the next door’ is subordinate clause.

But, ‘The man is an architect’ is main clause.                        

There are three types of subordinate clauses.

They are —

1. Noun clause,  

2. Adjective clause/Relative clause, and

3. Adverb clause.

Usage of subordinate clauses:-

Formation : A linking word + a complete sentence.

Linking word টি হতে পারে that, what, who,  how, when, where, which, etc. অর্থাৎ যে কোন Relative Pronoun or Relative Adverb⁰¹. ( See Appendix one).